Category Archives: Poems Beyond Their Words

contains poetry inclined toward mysticism, gnosticism, Irfan, Tasawwuf, Sufism

Fractured Light

Posted on March 7, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Even shadows choose to whirl lithely in the beams, romancing other silhouettes seeking revelation in their dreams. Compassion, do not hasten them, nor wake them from repose for in the moment two dreams alight the awoken lover glows. Stand boldly … Continue reading →

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Friend or Foe

Posted on March 3, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Below the exalted peaks of a mountain is its root. Plunging down and down, below the last stand of the tree line. Your spirit abrades as it Rumbles across the scree Deep into the replenishing pores of bedrock. Every one … Continue reading →

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Friend or Foe

Posted on March 3, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

  Below the exalted peaks of a mountain is its root. Plunging down and down, below the last stand of the tree line. Your spirit abrades as it Rumbles across the scree Deep into the replenishing pores of bedrock. Every … Continue reading →

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The tides of february have receded

Posted on March 2, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

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My Highway’s Washed Away

Posted on January 31, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiGXnI7CM1k This song by DCD swelled this poem up within me – Prologue: sitting at my desk, Criss-cross applesauce gasping like a dying child. Dying to flee the corpse of a man. I, not a child anymore, Who’s imagination is … Continue reading →

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Inspired by those inspired by those inspired

Posted on December 20, 2013 by skipavm@gmail.com

A broken heart is in want of that one healing treasure, like a frenzied moth to die in the candle flame. There is a painful longing in both – heart and moth – for the same return. Let us tread … Continue reading →

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The Baobab

Posted on November 27, 2013 by skipavm@gmail.com

All are in repose. as a reddening sun sinks melodiously drowning into a molten horizon. My heart gasps in harmony, “Take me with you” before our time is gone, I’ve not the strength to wait till dawn Long and low … Continue reading →

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A Hundred Ways

Posted on November 27, 2013 by skipavm@gmail.com

A hundred ways to remember the nameless, stand between the seeker and that One never to forget. Ninety-nine abandoned attributes linger in the faint attar of imbued nostalgia, wrenched in the twist of the implacable iron wood. The variegated visage … Continue reading →

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Chanced to Meet a Ghost Writer

Posted on July 31, 2013 by skipavm@gmail.com

I chanced to meet a ghost writer at my door, her transportation failed just down the road A sojourning doppelgänger of sorts …an elusive reflection who in need of a tow. Transmuting words to wine, We both sip time to … Continue reading →

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Who am I

Posted on November 4, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

I am the contents that has no container.   A sinner when I do right and a saint when I do wrong.   I am the feeling that you’re not alone and the reminder that you are.   tis nothing … Continue reading →

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